"If patterns of ones and zeros were 'like' patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?"

-- Thomas Pynchon

#Life Quotes #Long Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“I had a second trimester abortion. I was pregnant with a much-wanted child who was diagnosed with a genetic abnormality. I made a choice to terminate the pregnancy. It was my third pregnancy, and I was very obviously showing. More important, I could feel the baby move.”
“It is a great moment in every freak's life when he or she finds out that at least they are not the only one.”

Source : Mat Johnson (2011). “Pym: A Novel”, p.138, Spiegel & Grau
“But I'm able to just keep going, and that's the challenge. It's the next song. And then just enjoying the shows and people who come out to the shows. It's pretty organic, really.”
“Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.”
“What hard evidence is there that Obama doesn't want ebola in America?”
“I'll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.”
“In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.”
“I'm the demonslayer. Come and get me.”

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